Music is a kind of art performed with the amazing collaboration of medium of sound and silence. The popular element of music includes pitch, rhythm, dynamics, etc. Music varies from region to region and culture to culture. Music can be differentiated into various genres and subgenres.
On the basis of art it is subdivided as fine art and performing art. Traces of people understanding music can be spotted from prehistoric eras and is continuing since then. The traditional way of listening music is listening to live music in the presence of live musicians. However, by whole account, there exist no single concepts that can actually define music.
1. Mood And Music
Near about 83% of people agreed that their choice in music changes with alterations in their mood. However, 71% people believe that music can face alterations with change in environment. Data also suggested that 47% of people bother to ask for changing of the music they don’t like.
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2. Current Outlook For Digital Music Services
Digital music services are gaining popularity day by day. Statistics suggested that the download sale has increased up to 12% in 2012 to about 4.3 billion. The total figure of the people using mobile phones for digital music subscription will reach 178 million by year 2015.
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3. Kickstarter Boosting Music World
The total music projects initiated by Kickstarter are 24,811. Near about $90.46 million were spend. The total successful amount in these projects is $81.32 million; however, the unsuccessful amount is $7.45 million. The success rate was 55.03% and unsuccessful rate was 49.97%. Yet most of the successful projects reached less than $10,000.
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4. How Much Will You Pay For Music In 2013
Research suggested that the total number of free music services has increased by 700% in the gone 8 years. It also suggested that free music listener exceeds the paid ones by ten times. Famous music spreading websites have turned into the main distribution of released tracks today.
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5. Fragments Of Musical Instruments
There exist around six major categories of musical instruments with 300 of them in each category. However, if we also add local instruments to them the number will exceeds to 1500 more instruments in each category. The categories are electronic, string, keyboard, percussion, woodwinds and brass.
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6. State Of The Music Licensing Industry
Music licensing stands for the process of giving and seeking consent to someone for bringing the copyright music work in application for themselves. It is one of the faster growing area in music industry. A grand amount of near about 2.5 billion is collected all over the globe as yearly music licensing revenue.
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7. Earnings Of Music Industry
Data revealed from year 2012 records suggested that the year saw a global rise in sales after year 1999. The total revenue collected from music industry every year is near about $16.5 billion. People are majorly opting for subscription based services such as Spotify, Muse music and Rhapsody.
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8. How We Discover New Music
Analysis suggested that 48% of newly launched music is discovered over the radio, 35% is discovered on other sources, 10% through family and friends and only 7% from website like you tube.
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9. Summer Music Festivals
Year 2013 summer saw a lot of grand musical concerts. The areas of centre were Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, New port, New York, Bonnaro, Philadelphia, Manchester, etc. Most of them were conducted with the aim of raising money for charity.
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10. Expensive Musical Concerts 2013
The 13 most explosive and expensive musical concert of 2013 were held in Austin Miami, Indio, Gulf d New York. The range of number of bands participating in these concerts was between 15 and 2,000 bands. All of the concerts were a huge success.
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11. The Music Industry: The Rise Of Digital
The various online music retailers are topping the charts in different countries. Where Emusic is used by people in 27 countries, iTunes in 23 countries, YouTube in 21 countries, Vodafone in 17 countries, 7digital in 17 countries, Spotify in 17 countries, Last.Fm in 10 countries, Amazon in 6 countries, Deezer in 4 countries, Pandora and Rhapsody is used only in single country.
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12. Music Concert Sales And Tickets
A lot of music concerts held in summer of last years. The sales of these concerts reached above $30 million in year 2010, increased $40 million in 2011 and were $35 million in year 2012. The prices of tickets sold were below $100 in 2010 and 2011. However, the prices were above $200 in year 2012.
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13. When Do You Listen To Music?
A survey was conducted on music listeners. All of them were inquired about the time when they prefer to hear music. 56% of them listen to music while cooking, 36% listen at work, 32% for falling asleep and 29% of them listen to music while studying.
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14. Fair Prices For Music Outputs
Survey was conducted about how many of people believe that fans should support their favorite artists by paying fair prices for listening to the music they produced. 70% of the total agreed to the statement. However 18% disagree to it and rest felt both ways.
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15. A Look At The Modern Social Music Revolution
The various social media had helped to a major level to remove the dominance of piracy in music industry. The various app that serve live streaming music to the music lovers all around the globe include Spotify, Pandora, Grooveshark, Last.fm, Sound cloud, Jango, MOG, Rhapsody, etc.
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16. The Present And Future Of Music
Records from Europe disclosed the amount earned from music streaming in 2010 to be 1.1 billion pound, which was equivalent to amount earned at FIFA world war. Music consumption in U.S. suggested that a total of 17 hours of radio is consumed per week and 3hours of self music.
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17. The World Of Online Music
The retail sale of physical music was 80% in year 2007, nearly 70% in year 2008 and 64% in year 2009. However, digital music saw rise in these years from 20% to 30% and finally 36% in year 2008. The online music retailers include Itunes, Napster, eMusic.com, CD baby, FYE.com.
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18. Play The Music
The various summer feasts held all around in the word are summer feast started in 1968, Vans warped tour in year 1994, Lollapalooza started in 1991, Bonnaroo started in 2002, Coachella started in 1991, Sasquatch started in year 2002.
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